I have just recently gotten a collection of suns to boot of the network. I had to use kernel 2.4.19-pre10 to avoid the init problem. To make the network kernel bootable I had to make the tftpboot.img in the arch/sparc64/boot directory. This file requires there to be a /usr/src/root.img file. Currently I just use an empty file there for it to piggyback. Does anyone know what is supposed to be in this file? I looked all over for some info on it. The servers mount their root filesystem from an nfs server so I assume there does not have to be a filesystem in root.img.
Here's the details: I use rarpd on a linux box to pass the hexed ip address (and therefore the tftpboot kernel image) with a tftp server. The only way to get it to completely boot was to use this as the openboot prom command: boot net root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=10.0.0.200:/home/db0 ip=10.0.0.150:10.0.0.200:10.0.0.1:255.255.255.0:db0:eth0:none I was hoping something in the root.img file would allow me to just use "boot net", but if I use that now, it doesn't find its root= information or its filesystem. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. -Isaac BTW, I never would have gotten this far if it wasn't for the information I found on this list. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
